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‘Hello, Trump Warriors!’ Little-Known Preachers and Rabble Rousers are the Unregulated Id of the Felon’s First Rally

By Jeff Sharlet

…he means, or, they do—bullshit. The world is so packed with deception, raw deals, rigged games, lying bitches, lost chances, idiot bosses, fucking morons, your own shitty kids. Other people’s victories. Trump says it like it is. “He says what we all want to say.” He says: “bullshit.” His people roar. He steps back. “Oh!” he says, his voice startled, because he’s humble even in his pride. He turns to take in the men behind him shouting bullshit lik…

Religion as a Front for Tyranny: A Roundtable on the Timeliness of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”

By Anita Little

…ot work, neither should he eat.” [KJV]). The novel is a classic because it deals with themes of power, agency and voice. The Handmaid’s Tale series feels so relevant today because it focuses on the experiences of a woman living under an oppressive regime. When reproductive rights activists in Texas and Missouri staged protests wearing handmaid’s costumes, it was a chilling statement that the Gilead regime does not seem far-fetched but frighteningl…

Olasky Concludes Gingrich Untrustworthy, Unredeemed

By Sarah Posner

…ther the story about Gingrich and Clinton smoking and drinking and cutting deals to avoid scrutiny for their affairs—shows just how deep animosity to Gingrich is in the conservative movement, and particularly among Christian right elites he has targeted with his newfound faux piety. They have not just objections to his patently unkosher personal life (something they may forgive with proper contrition) but his blatant self-interest. His downward-sp…

Glenn Beck Takes on Liberation Theology

By Elijah Prewitt-Davis

…al and collective faith and salvation. He claims that liberation theology “deals exclusively with external realities” and does not address the issues of personal grace. What role does grace play in liberation theology? In that show it is ludicrous that on the one hand he is saying that there is no such thing as social justice in the gospel—that we are supposed to take care of people because we simply want to—and that everything happens by virtue o…

Inside Outsourced: Come See Where Your Jobs Went

By Haroon Moghul

…first show I can think of with a regular character wearing hijab. The show deals with religions that are often misunderstood, or feared. What kind of effect do you anticipate the show can have? For the first time, Americans can experience a contextualized India in all its diversity. There are Hindus, Sikhs, and Muslims and different personalities among them—the ambitious ladies’ man, the shy girl, the office pest, the love interest, the insecure a…

Grading Geltanthropy: The Case of Kellogg’s

By Peter Laarman

…(he’s the spokesmodel for Share the Power), but really: this campaign is a perfect example of Faux Philanthropy Meets Creepy Credulity. Whether the kids get fed or not, we know who gets an extra helping of filet mignon from these deals. The worst of it is the number of people who will dutifully click—and imagine that they have eased a child’s hunger that day. Jesus said, “if your child asks for bread, will you give her a stone?” No, not a stone: j…

On Zion’s Mount

By Jared Farmer

…aternal grandfather (a man of the nineteenth century, the son of a polygamist). That portrait hung the living room of my childhood home—a room that had a picture window facing Mount Timpanogos. Is there any book out there you wish you had written? I wish I’d written The Epic of Gilgamesh. It also deals with place-making and the profaning of sacred space. The Mesopotamian epic has all the elements for a timeless meditation on religion and environme…

The Princess Bride: Royal Weddings for Everyone

By Katy E. Shrout

…ry wedding industry—have conspired to turn weddings into bigger and bigger deals, religiously and otherwise. Add the ongoing political and religious battles over same-sex marriage and the many-tiered wedding cake of public discourse begins to teeter precipitously. Any Bride Can Be a Princess A royal wedding, as anyone not living under a foreclosed rock has noticed, is an especially big deal. For a people so proud of democracy, Americans love princ…

The Second Coming of Black Jesus

By Jess Peacock

…ing on the sidewalk in a box, and asks him what he wants today. “The Lotto numbers,” Lloyd replies. “Come on, man, you can do better than that,” Jesus tells Lloyd, who angrily storms away. “I still love your bitch ass! By default, too!” When Jesus and his friends decide to create a community garden (to grow weed) the vacant lot they choose is littered with trash and the soil is not at all appropriate for farming. However, in the theopoetics that J…

Queer Suicide and the Malpractice of “Love”

By Cody J. Sanders

…atter, but in order to protect a public career: speaking invitations, book deals. By ministerial malpractice, I mean the congregation that skirts around open discussions of queer affirmation, inclusion, and justice because they don’t want to become a “gay church” or (more liberally) they don’t want to be “defined by that one issue.” The difficulty is that I know these people and these churches, and so does every reader of this article. More diffi…